Sex victims afraid to face abuser

SOME of the victims of a child sex abuser were still ‘nervous’ about him living in the area while on bail awaiting sentence next October, a court was told yesterday.

Chilling accounts of their trauma were given by some of the injured parties in victim impact statements to Judge Carroll Moran at the Circuit Criminal Court, in Tralee.

Gustav Dahm, aged 35, of Ard na Mara, Pier Road, Kenmare, Co Kerry, has pleaded guilty to more than 20 charges of sexual assault and gross indecency against six children.